padString: pad a character string to a fixed length

In jamba: Just Analysis Methods Base

pad a character string to a fixed length

Description

pad a character string to a fixed length

Usage

padString(
  x,
  stringLength = max(nchar(x)),
  padCharacter = " ",
  justify = "left",
  ...
)

Arguments

x	character vector
stringLength	integer length for the resulting character strings in x. By default, all strings are padded to the length of the longest entry, however stringLength can be defined to impose strict number of characters for all entries.
padCharacter	character string with nchar=1 used for padding.
justify	character string with "left", "right", "center" to indicate alignment of the resulting text string.
...	additional parameters are ignored.

Value

character vector of length(x)

See Also

Other jam string functions: asSize(), breaksByVector(), fillBlanks(), formatInt(), gsubOrdered(), gsubs(), makeNames(), nameVector(), nameVectorN(), padInteger(), pasteByRow(), pasteByRowOrdered(), sizeAsNum(), tcount(), ucfirst()

Examples

padString(c("one","two","three"));
padString(c("one","two","three","four"), padCharacter="_", justify="center");

jamba documentation built on April 4, 2025, 5:14 a.m.